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Definition of Plaster saint
1. Noun. A person (considered to be) without human failings. "He's no plaster saint"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Plaster Saint
Literary usage of Plaster saint
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bookman (1899)
"... for "the grotesque travesty of Cervantes as a plaster saint," has thrown a
misty veil over the shabby, shifty life of the great author of Don Quixote. ..."
2. Putnam's Magazine (1909)
"If we don't look out, there will be danger of our making a plaster saint of him,
as we did of Washington. The worst of this sort of deification is that it ..."
3. Canadian Types of the Old Regime: 1608-1698 by Charles William Colby (1908)
"Now Brebeuf is exactly the type of saint whom the man of the world can understand
and reverence—not a plaster saint whose human robust- ness has suffered at ..."
4. Putnam's Magazine (1909)
"If we don't look out, there will be danger of our making a plaster saint of him,
as we did of Washington. The worst of this sort of deification is that it ..."
5. Monthly Bulletin of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (1917)
"... labor have built up, or make public confession and "let the plaster saint be
smashed." Travel and Description Europe—Travel and Description Anderson, . ..."
6. The Bookman (1899)
"... for "the grotesque travesty of Cervantes as a plaster saint," has thrown a
misty veil over the shabby, shifty life of the great author of Don Quixote. ..."
7. Putnam's Magazine (1909)
"If we don't look out, there will be danger of our making a plaster saint of him,
as we did of Washington. The worst of this sort of deification is that it ..."
8. Canadian Types of the Old Regime: 1608-1698 by Charles William Colby (1908)
"Now Brebeuf is exactly the type of saint whom the man of the world can understand
and reverence—not a plaster saint whose human robust- ness has suffered at ..."
9. Putnam's Magazine (1909)
"If we don't look out, there will be danger of our making a plaster saint of him,
as we did of Washington. The worst of this sort of deification is that it ..."
10. Monthly Bulletin of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (1917)
"... labor have built up, or make public confession and "let the plaster saint be
smashed." Travel and Description Europe—Travel and Description Anderson, . ..."
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